Gearing Up Before Raids in Legion

Gear in Legion is designed around a fresh perspective; there are equivalent gearing paths and gear from any content has a small chance to proc the highest possible item level. Here is a rundown of the different types of ways you can gear up at the start of Legion before Mythic+ Dungeons and Raids.

How Legion Gear Works

Instead of picking an activity that rewards a piece of gear at a specific ilvl, most gear has a small chance to appear at the maximum ilvl from any activity. This titanforged cap is now ilvl 985 in Patch 7.3.2.

If an item appears up to 10 ilvls above the base, it will be marked as Warforged in the tooltip. If an item procs +15 or higher, it will be marked as Titanforged. For example, If you love solo questing, there's a small chance your rewards from World Quests can proc Titanforged and be the same level as loot from a Mythic Dungeon.

Less gear in Legion is spec/role specific. Most primary stats change based on your specialization and new to Legion, rings, and necks have no primary stats, only stamina and secondary stats. This makes them desirable for everyone.

The personal loot system has received an important quality-of-life upgrade in Legion. If you win an item and you have gotten an item with that ilvl before, you can trade it to others in the raid.

How Relics Work

There are no weapon drops in Legion. Your Artifact Weapon is your main weapon in Legion; in place of weapon drops, there are Relic drops. Relics are items which increase the ilvl of your Artifact Weapon and increase a trait or two. Each Artifact Weapon has a unique assortment of Relic sockets that are themed around the "fantasy" of the weapon--for example, Warlocks have a lot of Fel Relics.

Relics are also affected by Warforged and Titanforged. The highest "base" relic is from Mythic Dungeons: these relics will increase the ilvl of your Artifact weapon by +40 (with a chance to be slightly more if the relic procs Warforged).

A more detailed explanation of Relics, as well as what Relic types are for each spec, can be found in the Artifact Weapon Guide.

Unsullied (880+)

Unsullied Gear is the Argus version of Dauntless gear. However, there doesn't appear to be any way to currently buy these and they are only available from random drops and Invasion Points.

These tokens are Bind on Account.

Relinquished (910+)

In Patch 7.3, Relinquished Items have been removed off the Broken Shore and added onto the Vindicaar.

Relinquished items have been upgraded to item level 910 but will cost 650 Argunite Velata. In addition, Tomb of Sargeras Loot has been added to the Relinquished tokens, as well as all legendaries, including ones added in 7.2.5.

Outside the scope of this beginner guide, you can run Mythic dungeons on a higher difficulty, which reward better loot.

World Quests (805 - 895)

World quests are a max-level questing system with randomized objectives and rewards all over the Broken Isles. As soon as you hit 110 and Friendly with the 5 factions for Unire le Isole, you can embark upon World Quests!

World quests send you all over the Broken Isles completing objectives, which can vary greatly and include killing regular mobs or elites, completing pet battles, crafting gear, and world PvP. Full details in the World Quest Guide.

World Quest gear starts off at 805; the better your ilvl, the better base ilvl will appear on the World Quest reward.

There is a pool of potential rewards for regular World Quests (killing normal mobs or elites, not specialty quests like professions) which include gear for all slots, including relics. As the ilvl of your gear increases, the World Quest rewards will start off at a higher ilvl as well, to ensure that the rewards remain relevant.

Based on the difficulty of the World Quest, your loot also has a chance to be potentially better. For example: killing a rare elite that requires a group will reward a higher ilvl item than killing a jailor and freeing 10 regular prisoners. Using average equipped ilvl 818 as an example, some regular World Quests have 820-835 rewards, while elite quests up at the same time have 835 rewards.

There are also Dungeon World quests which send you into a Legion dungeon to kill a special elite and the final boss. These quests reward a piece of loot from the dungeon. In the past, some dungeon rewards have also appeared on outdoor World Quests as well. Of course, farming a dungeon for a specific boss drop is more efficient than waiting for a World Quest to be up.

The Today in Legion page, similar to Today in Draenor, will track what quests and rewards are up when Legion launches.

Season 5 PvP Gear

Season 5 PvP gear is available through Relinquished tokens, traditional PvP sources like winning brawls and battlegrounds, and even from some PvP-themed World Quests.

There is a new way to acquire PvP gear in Patch 7.2 - the Obliterum Forge. You can obliterate Ferociousl Gladiator and Combatant Gear to get Eco della Battaglia. You can then turn in 100 Eco della Battaglia for a piece of Season 4 PvP gear you prefer.

Argus Crafted Gear (885-935)

Each armor class in Patch 7.3 has two new pieces of gear that can be made by crafters: One Jewelcrafting Helm and one other piece made from Tailoring, Leatherworking or Blacksmithing. These pieces use the new resources found on Argus and start at item level 885. These specific pieces can be upgraded using Obliterum Primordiale to item level 935.

Crafted Gear (850-900)

Crafted gear in Legion has no equip limit; you can be fully decked in crafted gear for each slot in Legion if you like.

Crafted gear in Legion can not be Warforged/Titanforged but it can be upgraded to 900 via the Obliterum Forge. If you have a lot of gold/time on hand, you could, in theory, create a full set of ilvl 900 gear via crafting.

The best-crafted gear in Legion starts at ilvl 850. A particularly strong set of items are the crafted necks from Jewelcrafting, as these come with a guaranteed socket and a class-specific proc.

New to Patch 7.2, the Obliterum Forge automatically unlocks for players! No more detailed questline.

Legion recipes are acquired from a variety of sources, like quests or dungeon drops. Here is an overview of crafted ilvl 850 slots per race and what you need to do to unlock the Rank 1 recipe. Rank 2 and 3 recipes, which generally require dungeons or reputation, reduce the amount of crafting materials.

Class Hall Set (810-870)

Your Class Hall Set is an 8-piece itemset; each piece unlocks by completing different Legion content. All of the content can be completed solo. Gear ranges from 810 to 850 and everything can be upgraded to 840, except for Shoulders which start at 850.

Gloves - Honored with The Nightfallen. Check out our reputation guide on how to hit Honored.

Leggings - Defeat the final boss of 8 Legion Dungeons. This can be done on any difficulty and you can use LFD if you do not have a group. Read the Legion Dungeon Strategy Guides to learn how to defeat the bosses.

Chest - Complete your Class Order Campaign. This is a special quest series, available every few levels, that delves into the lore surrounding your Class Hall. A sample overview for rogues is provided in the Class Hall Missions Guide.

Belt - Earn 100,000 Artifact Power. This may seem daunting at first, but when you are max level, you will start earning Artifact Knowledge ranks that steadily increase the amount of Artifact Power you get from items. Learn more it in the Acquiring and Spending Artifact Power Guide.

Shoulders - Exalted with the Nightfallen. This will take some time as Suramar is a level 110 zone. Check out our reputation guide on how to hit Exalted.

All items can be upgraded to 840 with tokens, except shoulders which start at 850:

New to Patch 7.2: if you complete Campioni degli Spezzalegione on the Broken Shore, periodically world quests will spawn that award armor tokens to upgrade these items to ilvl 870. These are fairly infrequent.

World Bosses (860-900)

With Legion comes 11 new World Bosses who are associated with epic world quests. They will be available when their world quest appears on your map, and these quests last several days. In addition to their loot, you will receive the reward from the world quest, which can vary from week to week and include Order Resources, gold, and Artifact Power items.

The Broken Isles World Bosses guide covers full loot tables and abilities for all the world bosses. Here is an overview of what slot is unique to each boss

Legendaries (940-1000)

Legendaries in Legion are transformative world drops! They are ilvl 1000 and come with an equip that greatly empowers an ability; if you equip that legendary you will likely modify your playstyle to take advantage of that ability more, which may, in turn, affect your talents and Artifact Trait path.

At Legion's launch you can only equip one legendary. If you reach Rank 6 Order Advancement, you will unlock an ability which allows you to equip 2 at once. The process to reach Rank 6 has been extremely condensed in Patch 7.2.

Early on in Legion, any legendary will feel like a big upgrade, even if you don't get your favorite proc, due to the massive ilvl gain. When you get lucky and obtain multiple world-drop legendaries, then you can decide which are better suited to your preferred playstyle.

The "Gear" section of each specialization guide goes into legendaries and playstyles in greater detail. Access all the guides on our Legion Class Guides hub page.

Many existing legendaries are being reworked to be more appealing in 7.2.

When triggered, this bonus is increased to the current values of 70% movement speed and 25% Haste.

Movement speed bonuses now stack with other movement speed bonuses.

Reputation Gear (820-850)

All factions have an ilvl 820 pice at Revered and ilvl 850 piece at Exalted. The Nightfallen also have ilvl 800 boots at Friendly and an ilvl 840 Neck at Revered. Please refer to the Legion Reputation guides for more information:

Modifying Your Gear

Legion gear enhancements work in a similar fashion to Warlords. There are gems and enchants, although there are no weapon enchants in Legion and ones from Warlords don't work on weapons above ilvl 749.

Three gear slots can be enchanted with Legion gameplay enchants: necks, cloaks, and rings. There are also shoulder and glove enchants which can assist with professions, but weapons in Legion do not have special enchants.

Without a Garrison-like system in Legion, players must acquire their enchants from Enchanters. For crafters, recipes in Legion require different quest chains, and once completed, enchants can be made at low levels. Learn more about Enchanting in our Legion Enchanting Guide.

Gem sockets have a small chance to be found on all gear in Legion, including raid bosses, world bosses, world quest loot, and dungeon loot. Rings and necks crafted by Jewelcrafters have a 100% chance to have a socket.

Commento di Vegelus

Only WoD had that requirement. MoP just introduced Proving Grounds, but it was optional activity, with achievements/titles rewards.

Commento di MaXiiczek

Why are there no information about items from PvP?

Commento di lankybrit

I actually think with this guide here now, I won't bother doing a Gearing up when you hit 110 guide. This one fully suffices.

Commento di integeroverflow

The reputation gear for the 820 is at Revered and not Honored as noted in the guide.

Commento di frmorrison

Perc, there is a mistake in this guide. This sentence has two errors: "All factions have an ilvl 820 pice at Honored and ilvl 850 piece at Exalted." The 820 gear is at revered and the word "pice" is misspelled.

Commento di Briyanna

Commento di girac

There is also level 800 gear for completing zones. Picked this up from a comment in a quest guide.

By TegoZanduba (24,279 – 5·27·225) 12 days ago (Patch 7.0.3)

The four leveling Pillars of Creation all reward a level 800 gear item for the final quest, this is the only one that doesn't require a dungeon. This might be something to consider for the order you'll be doing them in. The Tears of Elune, at the end of Val'sharah ( That's Val'sharah Folks! - 2 chapters don't count), awards the Chest slot The Aegis of Aggramar, at the end of Stormheim ( Vrykul Story, Bro), awards the Leg slot The Hammer of Khaz'goroth, at the end of Highmountain ( Ain't No Mountain High Enough, awards the Hands slot The Tidestone of Golganneth, at the end of Azsuna ( Azsuna Matata - 2 chapters don't count), awards the Waist/Belt slot

Commento di JGPenfield

Nice informative guide and I learned a lot about gear that was confusing to me because of the extensive changes. I have a complaint, not about this guide, but the changes by Blizzard. For 10 years I used WOWhead to help me decide what quests and dungeons I needed to do get the best gear. It was fun searching WOWhead to determine my strategy for the game and it gave me a plan to use when playing. But now it seems all you do is any quest, any dungeon or any world boss and hope you get some gear that you can't modify the stats on. You just blindly play the game and Blizzard does everything for you and you are no longer an individual, just another premade Blizzard pawn.

Commento di Purpin

Heroic dungeons require ilvl 845 to queue

This is not correct. I recently leveled an alt, and I can queue for heroic dungeons well below item level 845.